Cybersecurity News: Missouri Doesn't Understand Cybersecurity

In this episode of cybersecurity news: Missouri Governor Mike Parsons threatens the ethical hackers who notified the state of data exposure on a public facing website. Specifically, Missouri teachers, Social Security numbers were exposed. When the researchers reported the exposure to the state of Missouri the governor held a press conference and called the researchers malicious hackers. The governor also stated the report could result in a 50 million dollar investigation into the incident and the “hackers”Why is this such a big deal? Ethical hacking is an important technique used by the entire security community to ensure malicious hackers don’t find bugs errors and misconfigurations. If we threaten or otherwise discourage this behavior we will be significantly reducing our ability to identify and remediate problems!Here are the links from the show:- St. Louis Dispatch original report: Brian Krebs article on the Missouri Situation: press release regarding both the News article and the Governors office response: ways in: Stay in touch!Follow: